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1828. Jany. 29
Law Amendment.

II. Case or Scale of things the second. The particles of
wealth about to enter into the possession hands of the two parties in question

6. or 1. Fortunes unequal, by a particle of wealth
if added to the wealth of him who has least wi more happiness
will be produced than if added to the wealth of him
who has more.

7 or 2. 7. Particles of wealth at the disposition of the legislator,
say 10,000: happiness of the most wealthy to that of the
least wealthy, say, as per No 5 as 2 to 1: by giving to each
one of the 10000 persons a particle of wealth the legislator will
produce 5000 times the happiness he would produce by
giving the 10000 particles to one person.

8 or 3 On these data might be grounded a scale exhibiting
the quantities of happiness produced by so many additions
made as above to the quantity minimum of wealth to the respective happiness of
any number of persons whose respective quantities of wealth rising
above
exceed one another by the amount
of a particle in each instance.


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